Even though I’ve been on my healthy journey for almost 7 years, I still feel like a novice in so many ways. There are so many more things to learn, so many approaches, philosophies, and nuances to consider. That’s why I appreciate the author’s simple and basic approach. She started at the beginning, a place where I am comfortable.

The detailed student in me (or is it really just the voyeuristic part of me?) also also appreciates a good, long look into someone’s private life. Things like detailed menu plans really help me to consider practical ways of adjusting our practices, even if our criteria for healthy foods don’t line up completely. (We are still avoiding gluten as much as possible unless we come upon a better understanding of how to incorporate it without our bodies responding poorly.)

I’m linking up to her menu plans here just so I have them handy, but I do recommend checking out her site too.

This will likely be the last week of menus I plan out before I enter newborn zone again. Thankfully, I’ll be doing the meal swap again with my little group of wives from church, so I’ll have a few meals for the freezer on Friday. Then, by God’s grace, after Kieran arrives, friends from church will help feed us for a few weeks. 🙂

Well, I’m in the final stretches of pregnancy! About 2 weeks left to go! I just finished up my part-time work-from-home job this past Wednesday, so I should have a bit more time to prepare/rest before the big day.

I’m not a big fan of sitting down to make a menu plan each week, but I definitely appreciate how much easier the rest of the week goes when I have a plan in place. Since we did our meal swap last week, I’ve got a freezer full of healthy dinners and think I can finally get a leg-up on planning. I’m going to try to plan out two weeks so I don’t have to do this again next week. 🙂

Well, we’ve been trying to do more gluten-free stuff lately. After a bit of testing, we found that Erich especially functioned much better without gluten. We’ve also been trying to watch money right now until we sell our house. Soooo, here’s the plan for the week: